Cat SG Members South Africa

I focus on the conservation and behavioural-ecology of lions in southern Africa, with broader interests in all large African carnivores. I completed a PhD on the socio-biological aspects of predation and territoriality of lions in Kruger National Park, after which I focused both on re-established small populations and extensive wild populations. I am developing a program to understand temporal patterns in lions, as lion issues hinge on knowing how and why populations change. This requires two things: how numbers change, and what demographic variability creates this change, or alternatively leads to lion population stability.